Formerly of Newsweek, the Daily Beast, Talk magazine, Legal Times. Consulting on media startups and relaunches. And lately, philanthropy.
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"Imagine Cream with Bill Frisell on guitar and Charlie Haden on bass": Charlie Haden's guide to his best work, from jazz to blues and beyond guitarworld.com/features/the…
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BREAKING: Trump says he's been indicted in classified docs investigation and has to appear in court in Miami on Tuesday politico.com/news/2023/06/08…
The White House antisemitism initiative offers “hope that we can move from responding to tragedies to preventing them from happening.” amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/03/o…
Hmmm. curious how a candidate who boasts of asserting government control over what books folks can read, what positions businesses are allowed to take, what kinds of health care people are allowed to access fares in the live free or die state. What is libertarianism in 2023?
The idea that three Floridians could be vying for the GOP nomination—fun politico.com/newsletters/the…
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"It is the first time since I've left the United States"
Bellingcat's Lead Investigator on the importance of the summit, finding employment that promotes long term investigative journalism
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Thanks @nbrownpoynter @PulitzerPrizes for citing the "outrageous and unlawful detention in Russia of @WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich. The Pulitzer Prize board joins the many organizations around the world demanding Evan’s immediate release.” pulitzer.org/news/2023-pulit… #IStandwithEvan
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Murder rates soared. But it was far higher in red states that supported Donald Trump, and in cities with Republican mayors, according to a 2022 study by Third Way. Since the country began to recover from the darkest days of COVID-19, crime rates have declined somewhat.
Balto rocks
The legendary sled dog Balto saved an Alaskan town during a 1925 diphtheria outbreak and inspired the Iditarod. Scientists studying his DNA are discovering what made him so special. on.wsj.com/3oRCtq0
this right here
Thread - Like Fox News, NY Post can’t stop lying to its readers. Rather than grapple with complexities of crime in the US, they duck meaningful argument, preferring to fall back on tired trope of blaming George Soros and reformers. Let’s look at facts: nypost.com/2023/04/26/a-gree…
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Payton Washington is in the ICU after she was shot for getting in the wrong car in Texas
Kaylin Gillis was shot to death for driving into the wrong driveway in New York
Ralph Yarl was shot in the head for ringing the doorbell at the wrong house in Missouri
It’s the guns
Curious about the history of political success governors have had in sustained attacks on leading employers in their states. How does Florida benefit from this, exactly?
How dare they. If they can come for Justice Thomas’ luxury trips on super yachts they’ll come for your opulent lodges and private chefs too
WSJ calls out ProPublica for deploying harmful wealthist language against plus sized yachts. wsj.com/articles/clarence-th…
So henceforth conservative media will refer to him as the Crow-backed Justice Thomas, right? businessinsider.com/sinema-m… via @businessinsider
Hmmm. how to square with the Fox legal team's assertion that top execs were not involved enough in the coverage of false claims to justify defamation finding. seems pretty involved to me.
“the governor had personally removed any mention of crime statistics justifying Mr. Warren’s suspension, after Mr. DeSantis’s lawyers lamented that they could find nothing in them to support the idea that Mr. Warren’s policies had done harm…” nytimes.com/2023/03/11/us/po…
ummm..."As examples of O’Keefe’s spending on “personal luxuries,” the statement listed $60,000 related to “dance events” where O’Keefe performed routines dramatizing his life"
nymag.com/intelligencer/2023… via @intelligencer